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    The Books of Chilan Balam, the Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan
    The Books of Chilan Balam, the Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan
    The Books of Chilan Balam, the Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan
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    The Books of Chilan Balam, the Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan

    By Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

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      The Books of Chilan Balam, the Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan - Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

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      Title: The Books of Chilan Balam, the Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan

      Author: Daniel G. Brinton

      Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31610]

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      The Books of Chilan Balam,

      The Prophetic and Historic Records

      of the Mayas of Yucatan.

      By Daniel G. Brinton, M. D.

      VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF

      PHILADELPHIA; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL

      SOCIETY; THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY;

      DÉLÉGUÉ OF THE INSTITUTION

      ETHNOGRAPHIQUE,

      ETC., ETC.

      EDWARD STERN & CO.,

      PHILADELPHIA.

      PREFATORY NOTE.

      The substance of the present pamphlet was presented as an address to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, at its meeting in January, 1882, and was printed in the Penn Monthly, March, 1882. As the subject is one quite new in the field of American archæology and linguistics, it is believed that a republication in the present form will be welcomed by students of these branches.

      THE BOOKS OF CHILAN BALAM. ⁵-*

      Civilization in ancient America rose to its highest level among the Mayas of Yucatan. Not to speak of the architectural monuments which still remain to attest this, we have the evidence of the earliest missionaries to the fact that they alone, of all the natives of the New World, possessed a literature written in letters and characters, preserved in volumes neatly bound, the paper manufactured from the bark of a tree and

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